1. Department of Medicine Faculty Meeting March 22, 2016
Announcements
Residency Program Match Results

2. Announcements Update on Searches-Hematology-Oncology Section Chief
Clinical pathway for promotion (e.g., clinical AP, AoP, P) has been approved
Evans Student Educators (Associate Clerkship Directors) selected for AY 17
Rob Lowe
Sonia Ananthakrishnan
Rachel Casas
Teresa Cheng

3. AY 17 Budget Planning Update
Second pass of budgets in process
Departmental/section deficit projections ~$5m
CARE+ funding to the DOM likely decreasing, figures to be released by FPF soon
Quality Leader positions being eliminated
Associate Inpatient Medical Director being created
How do we offset section operating deficits?
Tax operating “profits”, if so, flat tax or variable rate

4. AY 17 Budget Planning Update (con’t)
UHC wRVU benchmarks for AY 17 are increased for some sections and lower for others
$/wRVU have declined in AY 16
Cannot afford to lower wRVU targets given need to increase salaries and challenging reimbursement levels
Trying to create sufficient “headroom” for incentive payments

5. AY 17 Faculty Compensation
Aiming for COLA but uncertain at this time (3% COLA= $1.5m)
Some sections have more faculty below AAMC AY 15 median
Higher benchmarks
Tend to be sections with more procedures
Some sections at or near AAMC AY 15 median
Tend to have lower benchmarks
Tend to be financially stressed
Planning review of compensation plan for AY 18

6. Faculty Development Seminars
Giving Effective Feedback
Francine Montemurro
Tuesday, March 29th from 12-1pm in Wilkins
NIH Biosketch Boot Camp
Ellen Jamieson, BMC Grants Office
Monday, April 4th from 12-1pm in Wilkins
Effective Collaborations with Industry
Weining Lu, Mike Pratt, and David Lough
Tuesday, April 5th from 5-6pm in Wilkins

7. DOM Networking Dinners
Under-Represented Minorities & Allies
April 20th from 6:30 to 8:30 (new date)
Investigators
April 27th from 6:30 to 8:30
Enjoy good food and meaningful discussion with your DOM colleagues.
Emelia Benjamin’s home in Brookline
RSVP to Robina Bhasin at

8. Academy for Faculty Advancement
Structured 9-month early career faculty development program for instructors and assistant professors across BUMC
Program Components:
Academic project and mentor
Professional development curriculum
Peer & senior mentoring
Application deadline is April 18, 2016

9. Faculty Grants Education Pilot Grants
Open to all clinician and scientist educators
Application deadline is May 2nd
medicine/grants/education-pilot-grants/
Faculty Development & Diversity Grants
Open to ALL DOM FACULTY at all levels seeking to further their professional development
Next deadline is April 15th